Unbalanced

Jacob Gershman at the New York Sun has an interesting article on an issue which has brewing for awhile now: allegations of extreme anti-semitism in the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University. He covers a speech given at Columbia by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and supporter of Israel:

"This is the most unbalanced university that I have come across when it comes to all sides of the Middle East conflict being presented," Mr. Dershowitz told hundreds of students and a smattering of Columbia faculty members....

One Columbia scholar who attended Mr. Dershowitz's speech, Judith Jacobson, shared his opinion that Columbia faculty members have been reluctant to speak out about the controversy....

Mr. Dershowitz, she said, "is a little ungenerous about the nature of their fear." Ms. Jacobson said faculty members do not want to risk being subjected to ostracism and even jeopardizing their careers if they speak out.

If this is true, so much for academic freedom.

http://www.nysun.com/article/8865

Thanks to Instapundit.com for the tip.